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Lingo

Gaston Dorren

Welcome to Europe as you've never known it before, seen through the peculiarities of its languages and dialects. Combining linguistics and cultural history, Gaston Dorren takes us on an intriguing tour of the continent, from Proto-Indo-European (the common ancestor of most European languages) to the rise and rise of English, via the complexities of Welsh plurals and Czech pronunciation. Along the way we learn why Esperanto will never catch on, how the language of William the Conqueror lives on in the Channel Islands and why Finnish is the easiest European language.

Surprising, witty and full of extraordinary facts, this book will change the way you think about the languages around you. Polyglot Gaston Dorren might even persuade you that English is like Chinese.

  • Classification : Cultural Studies
  • Pub Date : NOV 5, 2015
  • Imprint : Profile Books
  • Page Extent : 304
  • Binding : PB
  • ISBN : 9781781254172
  • Price : INR 925
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Gaston Dorren

Gaston Dorren is the author of Lingo a book on European languages that as the Telegraph put it is 'both genuinely interesting and enormous fun [with his] impressive ability to flip with ease from jokes and surprising facts to the discussion of complex linguistic ideas'. He is a regular contributor to the popular linguistics magazine Onze Taal and edits the Language Writer blog. A true polyglot Gaston speaks Dutch Limburgish English German and Spanish and reads French Afrikaans Frisian Portuguese Italian Catalan Danish Norwegian Swedish Luxembourgish and Esperanto. While writing Babel he also tried to learn Vietnamese.

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